2nd Half of Life

When you've stumbled--

and the guilt, loneliness, and fear come to assault you--

if you don't have at least one good friend,

or if you have not developed a prayer life where you know how

to find yourself in God

instead of in your own feelings,

you will simply retrench and reassert your correctness.

You'll learn nothing and remain in the first half of life,

maintaining your container and supposed identity.

This explains why most people are stuck in the first half of life.

This is especially true for people who are highly successful

or have been able to avoid all suffering.

If you only move from success to success,

or you never live in solidarity with the suffering of others,

you normally know very little about

your own soul.

~R. Rohr